Begin Editing For those of you who like to get your feet wet right away, we start with showing you how to edit a page. Feel free to jump in, play around, and then come back for the rest of this tutorial. The other Getting Started topics will be here waiting for you when new questions arise. To begin, click "Edit This Page 2. Basic Formatting Our visual page editor is as easy to use as a word processor. It lets you format your text, insert images and files, and link to other pages using a simple toolbar. To change the format of your text, simply highlight the text you would like to change, and click on the desired formatting button in the toolbar. You can format text in bold, italics, underline, various headings, and numbered and unnumbered bullets. You can also add a horizontal line break. 3. Linking When you create a new page in your wiki, you'll want to create a link to that page. You can create links by highlighting the text you wish to link and clicking the earth icon in the toolbar. You can link pages within your wiki or to locations outside of your space. To remove a link in the visual editor, put the cursor on the link, or highlight the link, and hit the broken link earth icon. 4. Adding Images and Uploading Files You can include pictures and files in your pages easily.
Click the image icon which looks like a tree in a box Use the 'Upload New File' or 'External Image URL' dialog to select the image or file you wish to put on your page.
Put the cursor at the position on the page where you wish to put the image or file
Double click the image or file to put it on the page
If you add an image to your page, you will have options to align the image, and add a link or caption.
To change the alignment or caption of an image already in the document or delete the image, simply return to the "Edit This Page" button and click on the image again. 5. Widgets and HTML You can embed widgets like video, audio, calendars, or any other HTML in your page. When editing any Wikispaces page, you'll see a button on the toolbar that looks like a television . Click it, and select the widget you want or paste the HTML from any embeddable web service in the box. 6. Adding Tables You can create tables by clicking on the table image in the toolbar. After you specify the number of rows and columns for your table, click "Ok."
If you would like to add or remove rows or columns after you have created your column, click on a cell in the table. On two edges of that cell, two arrows on either side of a circle will appear. The arrows will add a row or column to the adjacent cells they point to. The circle with an "x" through it will delete the current row or column your cursor is in.
For those of you who like to get your feet wet right away, we start with showing you how to edit a page. Feel free to jump in, play around, and then come back for the rest of this tutorial. The other Getting Started topics will be here waiting for you when new questions arise.
To begin, click "Edit This Page
2. Basic Formatting
Our visual page editor is as easy to use as a word processor. It lets you format your text, insert images and files, and link to other pages using a simple toolbar. To change the format of your text, simply highlight the text you would like to change, and click on the desired formatting button in the toolbar. You can format text in bold, italics, underline, various headings, and numbered and unnumbered bullets. You can also add a horizontal line break.
3. Linking
When you create a new page in your wiki, you'll want to create a link to that page. You can create links by highlighting the text you wish to link and clicking the earth icon in the toolbar. You can link pages within your wiki or to locations outside of your space. To remove a link in the visual editor, put the cursor on the link, or highlight the link, and hit the broken link earth icon.
4. Adding Images and Uploading Files
You can include pictures and files in your pages easily.
- Click the image icon which looks like a tree in a box Use the 'Upload New File' or 'External Image URL' dialog to select the image or file you wish to put on your page.
- Put the cursor at the position on the page where you wish to put the image or file
- Double click the image or file to put it on the page
If you add an image to your page, you will have options to align the image, and add a link or caption.To change the alignment or caption of an image already in the document or delete the image, simply return to the "Edit This Page" button and click on the image again.
5. Widgets and HTML
You can embed widgets like video, audio, calendars, or any other HTML in your page. When editing any Wikispaces page, you'll see a button on the toolbar that looks like a television . Click it, and select the widget you want or paste the HTML from any embeddable web service in the box.
6. Adding Tables
You can create tables by clicking on the table image in the toolbar. After you specify the number of rows and columns for your table, click "Ok."
If you would like to add or remove rows or columns after you have created your column, click on a cell in the table. On two edges of that cell, two arrows on either side of a circle will appear. The arrows will add a row or column to the adjacent cells they point to. The circle with an "x" through it will delete the current row or column your cursor is in.